Medical staff at the Orlando hospital that treated victims of the Orlando shooting say that there are still six patients they deem critically ill as a result of their injuries sustained in the shooting.

Massive fire in Orlando near Disney World

A massive fire has erupted in Orlando, Florida – a city still rattled by Sunday’s mass shooting at a gay nightclub. Construction materials caught fire on International Drive, just north of Walt Disney World, reported Orlando’s My News 13, citing the Orlando fire department.

The fire was thought to have broken out at Wet ‘n Wild, the longest-operating water park in the US that has been an Orlando fixture for over 25 years.

Apple VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi announces that Apple Pay will now work on websites, a long-awaited feature that will pit the company directly against companies such as PayPal. He speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

A traditional Malaysian game described as a mix of volleyball, football and acrobatics is going through a revival.Sehpak Takraw has been played across the Malay Thai peninsula for centuries but technology is now helping to attract new players.

Ukrainian citizens Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev, who were detained on terrorism and espionage charges in Russia, are on their way from Moscow to Kiev, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced.

“At last! Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev are already aboard a Ukrainian plane, heading from Moscow to Ukraine,” Poroshenko wrote on Twitter.

A police raid in the Paris suburb commune of Magnanville has ended with the death of a hostage taker, who fatally stabbed a police officer near his house and then killed his wife. Reports claim the man was shouting Islamist slogans during the attack.

RAID special forces raided the premises and shot the stabber dead, Francetv info has reported, citing a French Interior Ministry spokesman. The officers reportedly discovered the body of a woman in the house and rescued a 3-year old boy.

The attack began around 9 pm local time with the fatal stabbing of a plainclothes policeman, identified by French media as Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, near his Magnanville home, AFP reported.

The assailant, reportedly a neighbor, stabbed the police officer nine times in front of the house before taking his wife and son hostage, Le Parisian reported. The outlet said the victim was a deputy chief of the judicial police at the Les Mureaux police station.

Witnesses are reporting gunfire and explosions in the Paris suburb commune of Magnanville. French special police have surrounded a house where a man is holding hostages. The attacker stabbed the home owner, a police officer who was reportedly his neighbor.